Due to ongoing poor air quality, Modesto Junior College will remain closed through Sunday, November 25. All classes and extracurricular activities on campus are cancelled during this time. MJC will reopen on Monday, November 26.

The Honors Program is designed to help highly motivated or accomplished students prepare
to compete at top university levels. This program cultivates the skills and talents
of the intellectually curious, uniquely creative, activist-minded, and/or the academically
committed student. The principle guiding honors academics is dynamic and synthetic
learning, coupled with on-going dialogue with experts in the field. Honors students
are challenged and guided by faculty to delve deeper, think more critically, and argue
more persuasively, usually in topics of their own choosing. Participants also have
the opportunity to experience the camaraderie, encouragement, and intellectual stimulation
of being in a cohort of high-performing students. Although most honors students are
transfer oriented, this is not a requirement. Besides the criteria of a 3.25 GPA,
and English 101 ready, all a student needs to become an honors student is a burning
desire to do something more with their own education.

Mission

To provide students with life transforming educational opportunities, to open a path
towards intellectual independence as well as social and community consciousness, to
empower them to shape their own future.